Each of the fol­low­ing books focus on a jour­ney. They rep­re­sent both phys­i­cal and spir­i­tu­al jour­neys and geo­graph­i­cal­ly span the globe. These books take us from the haunt­ing images of con­cen­tra­tion camps, to a fam­i­ly’s bicy­cle adven­ture across the coun­try, to Rab­bi Nach­man’s gravesite in Uman, to Debra Spark’s sto­ries that blur the line between real­i­ty and fic­tion, the real and the sur­re­al. As we approach Passover next month, and retell the bib­li­cal jour­ney of the Jew­ish peo­ple from slav­ery, it’s fit­ting that these con­tem­po­rary works remind us to con­tin­ue the jour­ney to under­stand our own Jew­ish­ness, where we come from and where we’re going, the impor­tance of retelling the sto­ries of the past, and to nev­er stop ask­ing questions.

Through a series of pho­tographs of con­cen­tra­tion camps, Karl explores nar­ra­tive and visu­al dis­so­nances in order to high­light the inex­plic­a­bil­i­ty of the Holo­caust itself.